Johns Hopkins University - Mechanical Engineering Senior Design

12/12/2016

Many thanks to our esteemed panel of judges who took time out of their days to evaluate and provide feedback to our seniors at Fall Design Day today. Stay tuned for more pictures from the day's presentations!

(Photo courtesy of Adam Baumgartner)

12/07/2016

TODAY IN THE LAB: A team is testing prototypes in advance of Fall Senior Design Day.

Keep up the great work!

09/20/2016

Our Senior Design teams are hard at work! Here's team BAC learning about cooling towers and demonstrating their first prototype with the client.

09/07/2016

AND THEY'RE OFF! The 2016-2017 Mechanical Engineering Senior Design students met yesterday to discuss expectations and learn how to adequately prepare for their upcoming projects. Good luck and we can't wait to see your progress in a few short weeks!

08/06/2016

Fantastic!

Recent graduate Laura Scavo travels to Liberia to see the Ebola protective suit she worked on in action

07/05/2016

It's here! The Washington Post utilized video created from MechE Senior Design interviews with Reuters to showcase the design and need for a prosthetic that can adjust to women's heel heights.

Johns Hopkins University engineering students built a prosthetic foot that adjusts to fit heels up to four inches high. They hope their invention will help change lives for women who've lost a leg or foot to amputation.

06/01/2016

Lights, Camera, Action! Recent graduates Patrick 'Joey' Tilson '16 and Katelyn Koons '16 spoke with a producer with Thomson Reuters today about their team's senior design project - an adjustable prosthetic foot that allows the user (primarily female amputees) to adjust it in order to accommodate different heel heights.

05/26/2016

Check out this story by Fox News that showcases one of this year's projects! Congratulations to Team WRVL - Clara Aranguren '17, Luke Brown '16, Devin Holladay '16, Benjamin Keyser '16, Katelyn Koons '16, and Patrick 'Joey' Tilson '16 on your hard work in making this project a success.

Women who get a prosthetic foot after losing a leg to disease or injury have limited shoe options, but an invention by five Johns Hopkins University students may change that.

05/03/2016

And that's a wrap! A super successful Senior Design Day is done. We are all going to celebrate our students' accomplishments with a champagne toast in the lobby of Hodson Hall.

Congratulations to the Mechanical Engineering Class of 2016!

05/03/2016

Just about everyone dreads colonoscopies, though we all know that eventually that at least one is in our future. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab wants to help make the procedure a little easier.

They have asked Team RIZK - Michelle Camacho, Hunt Griffith, Alex Kearns, and Engineering Design Process junior assistants Rodrigo de Costa and Thomas Keady - to develop a safer and more comfortable device to guide the insertion and prevent accidental medical complications. The team has created several prototypes that can be further developed and used in future procedures.

Learn more about our sponsnor at http://jhuapl.edu.

APL Recognizes World-Class Expertise at 2016 Achievement Awards A novel water filtration device was named Invention of the Year at APL’s annual Achievement Awards ceremony, which also recognized the Laboratory’s top publications and research and development programs during 2015.Learn More »

05/03/2016

In missions, soldiers sometimes have to descend quickly from a hovering craft in heights up to 90 feet on a rope! There are all kinds of safety hazards facing the soldiers in that situation.

The Air Force Research Lab is sponsoring a multi-university contest to solicit designs to eliminate those hazards.

Team AFRL - Teo Gaudin, Rachel Hegeman, Ari Messenger, Christian Richardson and Engineering Design Process junior assistants Amanda Canezin and Kevin LeBlanc - created an irrigated wet rope design intended to reduce friction and heat and to allow easier gripping.

Learn more about our sponsor at http://www.wpafb.af.mil/AFRL/.